Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still, she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Victor Hugo
There have been three occasions where I have seen the Green Heron. The first was on May 10, 2021 at Holmes Lake:
The reason I saw it that day was because I was following an American Robin and I looked up and there the Green Heron as in the tree. I did not know what it was at first. I thought maybe it was some kind of cormorant.
The second time I saw a #GreenHeron was in Laurinburg, N.C. when I was visiting my parents:
And the third time I saw the Green Heron was on today, July 30, 2021. I was at Lincoln Saline Wetlands. I was VERY VERY close to it but my camera could not focus, instead it focused on the high grass that obscured it:
So I prayed that the Green Heron would not fly away and opted to walk further to an area where I could photograph it from a distance. I walked up on a group of Canada Geese, who had better things to do than sit with me so they swam into the water. I got out my binoculars and searched for it and there it was! Still perched on the branch:
It was a fun birding day.
As I get closer to the anniversary of my Angel Son’s passing, these moments out in Nature with the birds really do nourish my soul to keep pushing on.
Bird Lady of Turtle Island 